Rabbis Gone Virtual: From Facebook to Live Streaming Rabbinic Conventions
Cross-posted at Blog.RabbiJason.comFor me, it began a few years ago. That's when I first heard the words: "Rabbis, you need to have a presence on Facebook if you want to succeed in the 21st...
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View ArticleBeinart Pleasantly Surprised He Hasn’t Been Marginalized
Peter Beinart, the former New Republic editor whose strong critique of the American Jewish establishment in a New York Review of Books essay continues to reverberate in the community, says he has been...
View ArticleThe last word on Peter Beinart and the American Jewish leadership
Can you stand a few more comments and questions about Peter Beinart's controversial article on “The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment” in the New York Review of Books?It seems to me that on...
View ArticleFor Manning-Kaplan Duo, Jewish Nonprofits are the Ties That Bind
Jacob Berkman JTA PALM BEACH, Fla. (JTA) -- It’s a cool spring night, and Kathy Manning and Randall Kaplan are battling their way out of the west lawn of the sprawling bay-side mansion of Jane Goldman...
View ArticleMore Jewish Options For End-Of-Life Care
Sharon Udasin Staff Writer Metropolitan Jewish’s acquisition of two hospices may bring palliative approach to more families.After suffering with Alzheimer’s for seven years, Gloria Kestenbaum’s father...
View ArticleHow The Lubavitcher Rebbe Lives On
Gary Rosenblatt Editor and Publisher Sixteen years later, I can still hear the sudden gasp, followed by a loud, spontaneous and mournful wail that erupted from the thousands gathered outside 770...
View ArticleHitchens On Jewishness, Israel And Zionism
Eric Herschthal Staff Writer People seem to love author and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens for precisely the reason other people seem to hate him: he has an opinion, and a strong one, about...
View ArticleThe Making Of First-Time Campers
Julie Wiener Associate Editor Jewish foundation’s Specialty Camp Incubator churns out five new offerings, and enrollment is booming.Rachel Tore was “the mom who said [her] son would never go to...
View ArticleNew Torah-Based Outreach Seen Energizing Hillel
Gary Rosenblatt Editor And Publisher Conference here explores success of engagement through sacred texts. Dan Smokler, a 31-year-old Yale graduate, ordained rabbi and former labor organizer, wears the...
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